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Ten handy facts about Ireland
The Republic of Ireland is Europe's fastest growing country.
Éire is the name given to the country in the 1937 constitution.
The Irish President is elected to serve a seven-year term but has limited constitutional powers and is largely a figurehead.
Ireland is made up of 32 counties, 26 are in the Republic and the remaining six form Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
In 1919 Ireland issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain and the Irish Free State was established after the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.
Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick, is also the patron saint of Nigeria.
The first English king to set foot in Ireland was Henry II in 1171.
Gaelic football is the most popular spectator sport in Ireland.
Four Nobel Laureates for Literature have been Irish, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats.
The word "whiskey" is believed to be derived from the Irish Gaelic phrase, "uisce beatha" which means "water of life".
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